Saturday, 31 August 2013

Books to Look Forward to From Cornerstone

When two plane crashes set off a
spellbinding chain reaction of murder, inadvertent kidnapping, corporate
corruption and financial double-dealing, Niceville detective Nick Kavanaugh has
to investigate. To add to his worries,
he and his wife, Kate, have also just taken in brutally orphaned Rainey
Teague. Something bothers Nick about
Rainey - and it isn't just that the woman in charge of attendance at Rainey's
school has suspiciously disappeared. In
fact, people have long been disappearing from seemingly placid Niceville,
including, most disturbingly, Kate's father.
Using his files, Kate and Nick start to unearth Niceville's bloodstained
history, but something (or is it Nothing?) stands in their way... The Homecoming is by Carsten Stroud and
is due to be published in August 2013.

Down Among The Dead Men is by Ed Chatterton and is due to be
published in

November 2013. This is the
dark, gritty second novel in the Detective Inspector Frank Keane series. At first glance, the bloody crime scene in
suburban Liverpool looks like a straightforward murder-suicide - the husband
kills the wife and then himself. But
what of their missing teenage son, Nicky?
Is he their prime suspect or the third victim? With Nicky's holiday job on a film, being
shot in the city bringing unwanted press attention, newly promoted head of the
Merseyside Major Incident Team DCI Frank Keane knows that time is running out
to find the boy. But all too soon, the
case starts unravelling into one that will test Keane to the limit - and haunt
him to his dying day.

Second Honeymoon is by James Patterson and Howard Roughan and was
published in July 2013. When FBI agent
John O'Hara receives a call from a man desperate for his help, little does he
know his whole life will turn upside down.
The man's son and daughter-in-law have been found murdered on their
honeymoon in the Caribbean. He wants
justice, and will pay O'Hara handsomely to hunt down the killer. Federal agents aren't allowed to moonlight,
but O'Hara is on suspension. The drunk
driver who killed his wife in a car accident two years ago is soon to be
released from jail, and O'Hara is battling some serious demons. He takes on the case, but when another couple
are murdered before boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it becomes clear
that this investigation is far more complicated than it first seemed. As O'Hara delves deeper, a past he thought
was dead and buried soon comes back to haunt him.

Tory Brennan - great niece of Dr
Temperance Brennan - and the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure
yet. Life appears peaceful on Loggerhead
Island - rescued from financial disaster, the research institute is flourishing
once more. However, the tranquillity is
quickly shattered when Tory Brennan and her technophile gang discover a
mysterious box buried in the ground. A
seemingly innocent treasure hunt soon turns into a nightmarish game of puzzles,
as it becomes clear that one false move will lead to terrible, explosive
consequences. The clock is ticking. Can Tory and the Virals crack the code in
time to save the city - and their own lives? Code is by Kathy Reichs and is due to be published in October 2013.

Gone is by James Patterson
and Michael Ledwidge and is due to be published in September 2013.Forced into
hiding from a mass murderer seeking vengeance, Detective Michael Bennett must
decide whether to stay and protect his family, or hunt down the man who is
hunting them. When Bennett arrested
Manuel Perrine, he thought he had brought an end to the drug cartel boss' reign
of terror and would get justice for the murder of his best friend. But then, during the trial, Perrine
escaped. In a bloody shoot-out, Bennett
killed Perrine's wife. Now he wants
nothing more than to make Bennett suffer, to make him pay. The whole family are moved to a safe house in
California. But as Perrine's attacks on
US soil become more vicious and more daring, it's clear there is a war
coming. No one, anywhere, is safe.

Sacrifice is by Will Jordan and is due to be published in August
2013. Afghanistan, 2008. A Black Hawk helicopter carrying a
senior CIA operative is shot down by a surface to air missile, its lone
passenger taken hostage by a fanatical new insurgent group.Knowing this man holds information vital to
the on-going conflict, the CIA bring in Ryan Drake and his elite Shepherd team
to find and rescue their lost operative.However, nothing is what it seems, and within hours of arriving in the
war-torn country, Drake and his team find themselves caught in a deadly
conflict between a brutal terrorist warlord and the ruthless leader of a
private military company.In addition,
lurking in the shadows is a woman from Drake's past determined to settle old
scores.

Favour the Dead is by Mackenzie Smith and is due to be published in
October 2013. My name is Christian McKie and a few months ago, I was
killed in military action in Sierra Leone.
I am undercover with the only people who know I am alive. We were all killed in action. And now we must use death to our
advantage. We are the Regiment of the
Dead.

An Officer and A Spy is by Robert Harris and is due to be published
in September 2013.January 1895. On a
freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart,
witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in
front of twenty thousand spectators baying 'Death to the Jew!’ The officer is rewarded with promotion:
Picquart is made the French army's youngest colonel and put in command of 'the
Statistical Section' - the shadowy intelligence unit that tracked down
Dreyfus. The spy, meanwhile, is given a
punishment of medieval cruelty: Dreyfus is shipped off to a lifetime of
solitary confinement on Devil's Island - unable to speak to anyone, not even
his guards, his case seems closed forever. But gradually Picquart comes to believe there
is something rotten at the heart of the Statistical Section. When he discovers another German spy
operating on French soil, his superiors are oddly reluctant to pursue it. Despite official warnings, Picquart persists,
and soon the officer and the spy are in the same predicament. Narrated by Picquart, An Officer and a Spy is
a compelling recreation of a scandal that became the most famous miscarriage of
justice in history. Compelling, too, are
the echoes for our modern world: an intelligence agency gone rogue, justice
corrupted in the name of national security, a newspaper witch-hunt of a
persecuted minority, and the age-old instinct of those in power to cover-up
their crimes.

An investigator with the brilliance
of Lincoln Rhyme is paired with a former soldier with the

determination and
strength of Jack Reacher. Deacon Munroe
is not your average investigator. He's
intelligent, cultured, and well connected.
And totally blind. Washington DC
is Munroe's city. Now it's a city shaken
to the core by the death of a high-ranking general and his wife. All the evidence suggests that the general
killed his wife, before taking his own life.
Deacon Munroe does not trust what other people see - only what he knows
is true. What Munroe soon knows is that
the general's death is part of a far greater plan, a sophisticated and brutal
plot to kill thousands of innocent people, including those closest to Munroe
himself. But with only a small team at
his aid, and just hours to stop a devastating attack on the city, can Munroe
unearth the truth in time to bring justice to the city?Blind
Justice is by Ethan Cross and is due to be published in October 2013.

Special Agent Will Trent has
something to hide. Something he doesn't
want Dr Sara Linton - the woman he loves - to find out. He's gone undercover in Macon, Georgia and
put his life at risk. And he knows Sara
will never forgive him if she discovers the truth. But when a young patrolman is shot and left
for dead Sara is forced to confront the past and a woman she hoped never to see
again. And without even knowing it, she
becomes involved in the same case Will is working on. Soon both of their lives are in danger. Unseen
is by Karin Slaughter and was published in July 2013.

Dead Set is by Will Carver and is due to be published in November
2013. Detective Inspector January David
doesn't love me. He loves his missing
sister. He loves his job. But he doesn't love me. Not in the way, he should. I am his wife. I am still his wife. And I will do anything for him. No, matter what I have to sacrifice.

Bones of the Lost is the new Temperance Brennan novel from the
world-class forensic anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs. The body of a teenage girl is discovered
along a desolate highway on the outskirts of Charlotte. Inside her purse is the ID card of a local
businessman who died in a fire months earlier.
Who was the girl? And was she

murdered? Dr Temperance Brennan,
Forensic Anthropologist, must find the answers.
She soon learns that a Gulf War veteran stands accused of smuggling
artefacts into the country. Could there
be a connection between the two cases?
Convinced that the girl's death was no accident, Tempe soon finds
herself at the centre of a conspiracy that extends from South America to
Afghanistan. But to find justice for the
dead, she must be more courageous - and take more extreme action - than ever
before. Bones of the Lost is due to
be published in August 2013.

How well can you ever really know
someone? As Ben Casper watches his best
friend plummet from her sixth-floor apartment balcony, he realises his life is
about to change. Diana had no reason to
kill herself, she had to have been pushed.
Diana worked for the CIA, so the investigation into her death is kept
tightly under wraps. But Ben is a
political journalist, and can feel that something isn't right. Ben starts investigating for himself and soon
discovers Diana was leading a double life he knew nothing about. But when more people involved die in
questionable circumstances, it's clear that someone doesn't want the truth to
be uncovered. And unless Ben drops his
investigation, he could be next. Mistress is by James Paterson and David
Ellis and is due to be published in August 2013.

Angel of Death by Martyn Waites is the sequel to Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black and is due to be
published in October 2013. Autumn
1940, World War Two, the Blitz. Bombs
are raining down, destroying the cities of Britain. In London, children are being removed from
their families and taken to the country for safety. Teacher Eve Parkins is in charge of one such
group, and her destination is an empty and desolate house that appears to be
sinking into the treacherous tidal marshes that surround it. EEL Marsh House - Far from home and with no
alternative, Eve and the children move in.
But soon it becomes apparent that there is someone else in the house;
someone who is far deadlier than any number of German bombs...The Woman in
Black.

No Man's Nightingale is the twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's
bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. Sarah Hussain was not popular with many
people in the community of Kingsmarkham.
She was born of mixed parentage - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant
Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend
of St Peter's Church. But it comes as a
profound shock to everyone when she is found strangled in the Vicarage. A garrulous cleaner, Maxine, also shared by
the Wexfords, discovers the body. In his
comparatively recent retirement, the former Detective Chief Inspector is
devoting much time to reading, and is deep into Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He has little patience with Maxine's
prattle. But when his old friend Mike
Burden asks if he might like to assist on this case as Crime Solutions Adviser
(unpaid), Wexford is obliged to pay more precise attention to all available
information. The old instincts have not
been blunted by a life where he and Dora divide their time between London and
Kingsmarkham. Wexford retains a relish
for solving puzzles and a curiosity about people, which is invaluable in
detective work. For all his experience
and sophistication, Burden tends to jump to conclusions. But he is wise enough to listen to the man
whose office he inherited, and whose experience makes him a most formidable
ally. No Man’s Nightingale is due to be published in August 2013.

The Case of the Love Commandos is by Tarquin Hall and is due to be
published in October 2013. When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young
woman’s parents are dead set against the union.
She’s from a high-caste family; he’s an Untouchable, from the lowest
strata of Indian society. Young Tulsi’s
father locks her up and promises to hunt down the “loverboy dog.” Fortunately, India’s Love Commandos, a group
of volunteers dedicated to helping mixed-caste couples, come to the rescue. But just after they liberate Tulsi, Ram is
mysteriously snatched from his hiding place.
The task of finding him falls to India’s “Most Private Investigator”. Unfortunately, Vish Puri is not having a good
month. He’s failed to recover a cache of
stolen jewels. His wallet has been
stolen and he’s having to rely on his infuriating Mummy-ji to get it back. And to top it all, his arch-rival, suave
investigator Hari Kumar, is also trying to locate Ram. To reunite the star-crossed lovers, Puri and
his team of operatives must infiltrate Ram’s village and navigate the caste
politics shaped by millennia-old prejudices.

She was ten years old, but knew
enough to wipe clean the handle of the bloody kitchen knife. The night was stifling; the windows were
closed, sealing in the chaos. A table
upturned, shattered crockery. Her
distraught mother, bare shoulders raw with welts, knelt beside her motionless
father. The child snatched up her
backpack, and ran...London sweats in the height of summer. The parched city has slowed to a
claustrophobic shuffle and there's no end in sight. Heroin-addicted investigator Catherine Berlin
hides her scars from prying eyes while working on the worst of all cases:
matrimonial. The capital's junkies
suffer from a drought of a different kind.
A strung-out ghost from Berlin's past turns up on her doorstep with a
desperate plea for help: her ten-year-old daughter is missing. Reminded of a debt owed, Berlin agrees to
help, but the search becomes far deadlier than she could ever imagine, drawing
her deep into an underworld of corrupt detectives, ruthless drug dealers, and a
child killer...A Bitter Taste is the
second instalment in the crime series by Annie Hauxwell featuring civilian
investigator Catherine Berlin, whose long-standing heroin addiction is only
part of her story. A Bitter Taste was published in July 2013.